Small conus shell disc with unusual perforations; 8 radial pencil lines visible on which small holes have been drilled - 4 closer to and 4 further out from the octagonal hole in the centre [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/9/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Small conus shell disc with unusual perforations; 8 radial pencil lines visible on which small holes have been drilled - 4 closer to and 4 further out from the octagonal hole in the centre [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/9/2005]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
Person: Field collector John Dewhurst Bodger; PRM source John Dewhurst Bodger
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1936
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1936
Materials and processes: Material Conus Shell, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 36 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.1.46
Research and responses: Conus is a marine snail genus, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica [MR 5/4/2000]
Note that there is a biography entry for a John Bodger but it does not give second name initial, there are 2 John Bodgers on the database and they are not likely to be the same person as one was collecting circa 1860 [the other one] and this one's dates are later and more in line with biography. Both were missionaries [AP 14/2/2003]

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